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OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

quality high school, Advanced Placement©, and undergraduate courses that are distributed free to students and teachers and through various licensing fees.

  1. National Science Teachers Association[1] is developing open online science learning objects for K–12 science teachers.
  1. Open Universiteit Nederland is working on the OpenER[2] project to introduce OER to Dutch higher education by focusing on high-quality, independent self-study learning materials in an open resource format.
  1. Open University (UK)[3] is making selections of its higher education learning resources freely available on the Internet, providing users with tools to help them manage their learning, and developing supported collaborative learning communities.
  1. Stanford University[4] is creating and testing open web-based resources for supporting the teaching and learning of U. S. history.
  1. Stanford University[5] is developing a strategy to reach financial sustainability for the online, open Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  1. Tufts University continues to publish Tufts OpenCourseWare,[6] which focuses on dental and veterinary medicine as well as international affairs.
  1. University of California, Berkeley[7] is creating an open online general chemistry course.
  1. University of California, Irvine[8] is developing open courses and support materials to prepare California teachers for a teaching credential in mathematics.


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